Komagata Maru

July, 23, 1914, this day will always be remembered in my heart, for this was the day

when Sikhs stood up for themselves and fought for a counterbalance that allowed Sikhs just like me

a right to vote, a right to free speech, and a right to live how ever they pleased with out

anybody pushing them roughly or calling the names or torturing them. March, 4, 1914,

a man named Gurdit Singh decided to challenge the new immigration proceeding passed in

Canada stating that Indians could only come to Canada via a non - stop race from

there accredited country, by sending 394 Indians as immigrants to Vancouver on a Japanese

steam liner called the Komagata Maru. Gurdit Singh began change tickets for the pilgrimage

right up until 2 days before the travel and on that day he was arrested by Hong Kong

natural law for selling illegal tickets for the voyage and the ship was put under police guard.

The next day the ship was allowed to leave Hong Kong with Gurdit Singh in it because of

the Hong Kong governor knowing Gurdit Singh from birth. After making stops in china

and Japan to pick up more Sikh immigrants, the Komagata Maru at long last arrived in

Vancouver on May, 23, 1914. Both the Indian and Canadian politics had been waiting

for the ship.



The Canadian authorities complimentsed the ship to go back to Hong Kong, but the

Indians had lawyers, money, and food ready to help the passengers. Canadian authorities

didnt let the passengers leave the ship claiming that the passengers didnt have the 200$

that would qualify them to enter British capital of South Carolina and that the passengers violated the

immigration act by not sledding on a direct passage from there original country, while the

Indians claimed that Canada is a free country and that the government allows everybody

else in Canada, so the government set an election to vote on the matter The Majority of

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